Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

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station, where he was joyfully received
by his old companions, who thought
him dead. He was a principal actor In
almost every important event that oc
CURED in Kentucky, until Indian
aggresslons were entirely ended. which
was about 1913.
"About that time Clarke raised an
army Of eleven hundred men 10 retail.
ate for the fall Of Martins and Biddle's
forts. Kenton commanded company
from Harrod's station and shared in all
the dangers and successes OF this army.
ChilIicothe, Pickaway and many other
towns were burned and their crops de.
stroyed. For two years after this period
the stations enjoyed comparative peace,
and Kenton passed his time in hunt
ing, or spy, or with surveying parties.
"In September, 1T78, Kenton and
Montgomery determined TO go into
Ohio to recover some ofthe forty horses
that had been stolen from Major Nc
Gary at Harrodsburg, upon which oc-
casion he was taken prisoner and bound
upon wild horse, with his feet under
1t; the horse was turned loose amid the
shouts Of the savages, rushing through
the forests frantically, tearing his flesh
and near killing him. His after suffer
ing and escape on this occasion, for
want Of space, must be omitted.
"To make this narrative as short as
possible, I will condense: In 1776, to
put in a check to the Indian invasion, a
force of 700 men was gotten up. under
command of Colonel Logan. Kenton
commanded company and piloted
several engagements and burnt four Of
their towns. An expedition was gotten
up the next year by Kenton, COM
manded by Colonel Todd, of which the
former commanded company of gall
liant young men trained by himself, he
also acting as pilot. A detachment led
by Hinkston and Kenton fell upon and
defeated large body of Indians before
Todd came up. Chillicothe was burnt,
with many other towns, and the Indi-
ans crops destroyed, and themselves
crippled to such an extent that, for q
time, they were unable to invade Ken
lucky.
"From IT'S to 1898 the Indians
ceased their incursions into Kentucky.
In 1898, when Wayne came down the
Ohio for his expedition against the In
dians, Kenton, then Major, Joined
him with his battalion, and proceeded
to Greenville. The Indians, being de-
feated by Wayne, sued for peace and
the war ended.
/ "Kenton, will say, was command
der, guide and a bold leader in all the
invasion of the Northwest Indians and,
having the instructive and unerring
knowledge of the horse, led the various
expeditions through the vast, tangled
and painless primeval forests of Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and to relate all
the incidents of his invaluable services
would require quarto volume of three
hundred pages.
''After the treaty of peace at Green
Kenton, lands rose in value rapidly in
Kentucky. Kenton was regarded as
immensely wealthy, but, like Boone, he
lost all by older claims and expensive
law suits, and finally his body was ia
ken for debt upon the convenant in
deeds to lands, and for twelve months
he lay in prison, upon the very spot
where he first built his cabin, and
where he planted the first corn. He,
in disgust, left the land, he had with
long suffering defended, poor and PEN
niless. In 1902 he moved to Ohio and
settled in Urbana. He was elected
Majoy General of the Ohio militia.
'sWhen the second war of independ-
ence with Great Britain broke out in
1872, he volunteered as a private and
was made a privileged member of Gov
ernor Shelby's military family and
fought calamity in the battle of the
Thames, where his old hsro companion
of Kentucky, Colonel Whitley, and
others fell. In:1S10 he joined the Metho-
dist church and lived a pious and quiet
life and died in April, 1885, in full faith
ofa future and happier life. osave him
from the poor-house, Congress voted
him pension of $240 year.
ITO show the mans generosity, he
gave 1000 acres of land, the only title
he had that held good, on which to
build the town of Washington, in Ma
son county, where he erected his first
cabin. He was a strange compound Of
lncompatibilities-totally devoid of fear
and self-aggrandizement.
"Kenton in person was said to be over
six feet high; mistake, his height be-
Ing five feet eleven inches, and his
weight 180 pounds. He had the exact
of Captaid John Russell, a
well-known citizen of Louisville and a
steamboat captain, renowned for his
powers. Kenton, in short,
was in war Charles TX of Sweden, and
In physical energy and force the admira-
BILE Crichton Quixote. of Kentucky. III
have often been asked, Did you know /
Kenton?' and my answer has been, 1t
would be strange if / did not know all
the old settlers, when was man
growfa before any of them died, and
fifty-two years Of age when Kenton
died, being born on the 10th of October,
1874, and Kentcn did not die until
1885,"
THE FIXED SETTLE
MENTS.
One hundred years ago there was but
five million people in the United States,
which has been multiplied by ten, and
which may, again be increased ten-fOld,
within the next century. One hundred
years ago, there were but few scattered
families dwelling in the confines of
what became the State of Ohio, Now,
,he population of the State rivals that
If the entire nation a century since.
THE FIST WHITE CHILD.
tits said the first white child born in
he State was child ofa French planter
lamed Millehomme, born in the forest,
in the head-waters Of the Miami, near
Loramie Portage, in,gthe year of 1774.
The parents were Canadian French,
md ware on their xraxr rn i Tnilisiana L